substantiality
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Abstract relations, for instance, divided into existence; relation; quantity; etc – and existence divided into existence; non-existence; substantiality; insubstantiality; intrinsicality; extrinsicality, and so on.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2017
North Wales Police said the inquiry took five years and the scam was largest fraud ever to be investigated by the police force by a considerable margin in terms of value, complexity and substantiality.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2013
Whether or not use is fair depends on “the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.”
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2012
But while the intensity of her passion in the moment is without question, its substantiality is possibly a different matter.
From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2011
He knows it, and the knowledge gives him more reality than most people own: a solidness of being, a substantiality, a human grandeur.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
